Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

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Sleepwalker (1977).

Interesting column by Conrad Black. He gets Ted Cruz quite wrong, but his assessment of Hillary Clinton is exactly right:

Hillary Clinton was, as Trump described her when she unwisely accused him of being a sexist, a facilitator of sexism; simultaneously the feminist in chief and First (Wronged) Lady, as spouse of America’s premier sexist. She was elected in a rotten borough for the Democrats in New York State, and was a nondescript secretary of state. She has been caught in innumerable falsehoods and her conduct in the entire Benghazi affair (the terrorist murder of a U.S. ambassador) was reprehensible. Her indictment for various breaches of national security and possible perjury is regularly demanded by former attorney general Michael Mukasey and other worthies.

She is often impressive, but all these and more failures, as well as unseemly activities with the Clinton Foundation, will be mercilessly pounded on in the campaign. Donald Trump will not simulate the languorous defeatism of the senior Bush or Mitt Romney, or the blunderbuss shortcomings of Bob Dole and John McCain. (Romney’s savage attack on Trump on Thursday served to remind Republicans of how he squandered a winnable election in 2012 and faced in all four directions on every major issue.)

Get right with Donald.

To the Editor:

If you don’t call a problem what it is, you can’t fix it. David Brooks’s column would have been a home run but for his timidity about naming the problem. He wrote that “the Senate” says it won’t hold hearings on a Supreme Court nominee. No, the pathologically petty majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who didn’t even wait for Justice Antonin Scalia’s body to get cold, announced, unequivocally, that he would not hold hearings. Then Mr. McConnell’s minions all fell in line behind him.

Mr. Brooks wrote that “politicians” live in fear of compromising. No, “Republican politicians” live in that fear. It reminds me of when I was a child. My older brother would beat me up and my mother would say, “I want you two to stop fighting.” Mr. Brooks writes as though both parties were equally complicit in the demise of our political discourse. The genesis of this destructive trend was Ronald Reagan’s mantra that “government is the problem.” Roger Ailes picked it up from there and spawned Fox “News.” A problem without a name can’t be fixed.

SARA R. NICHOLS

Los Angeles

Note from KBJ: No American politician has been less willing to compromise than Barack Obama. Sara Nichols is living in Cloud Cuckoo Land.

The four young guns of conservatism—Stephen Hayes, Rich Lowry, Jonah Goldberg, and Byron York—have yet to get right with Donald. It's going to be fun to see them grovel.

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